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MLB Field Of Dreams Game Was Corny

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There was an MLB game played in a cornfield last night. They played the game in Iowa. We know Iowa for its agriculture. A cornfield in Iowa isn’t out of place. Major League Baseball in Iowa is.  The game was between the American League Central division-leading Chicago White Sox and the legendary New York Yankees . People that attended the game drove to a town in Iowa called Dyersville. Attendees parked in a gravel lot and got to walk through a corn maze to get to the field. Once there, there was a temporary baseball field that was constructed especially for the game.  Why go to all this effort? What’s all the fuss about? Why did Major League Baseball have two of their franchises transport their collective multi-millionaire players to the middle of the Midwest to play a single game?  To commemorate a movie, Field Of Dreams starring Kevin Costner , made 32 years ago. Now, I’m not one to make fun of nostalgia. MLB Field of Dreams is just that. I’ve got old records. My movie collec